VIRGINIA BEACH The city has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations that the math portion of the police entrance examination discriminates against blacks and Hispanics.
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Also, the city will offer to allow 124 applicants to resume participation in the hiring process. Those 124 failed the math test between 2002 and 2005, but would have passed under the new standards.
The city also will create a $160,000 fund to compensate those applicants.
Under the agreement, the city will eliminate the 70 percent passing score for the math part of the test. Under the new standards, an applicant must score at least 70 percent on the reading and grammar test, and score an average of at least 60 percent on all three parts of the exam, said Deputy City Attorney Mark Stiles.
The old format required a 70 percent passing score on each of the three sections.
This kind of stuff peeves me to no end. SATs are racist. Math tests are racist. You're really hunting for boogeymen when inanimate objects are prejudiced.
Bush's term, "the soft bigotry of low expectations", is truly perfect. "Hey, Guy-With-Extra-Melanin, you're retarded!"
Would you allow, in a post-affirmative action world, surgery on your heart or brain to be performed by a "minority" (I put minority in quotes since Jews and Asians, truly monorities, don't apply here)?
Affirmative action has NOT helped anyone. Instead it has allowed underqualified people into positions requiring serious qualifications. It has institutionalized the notion that "people of color" are incapable of succeeding on their own merits. It is truly a shame.
This kind of crap is just depressing.
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